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The Chairman of the Labour Party, Colm Keaveney, has said that he will not support the abortion Bill if it comes before the Dáil in its current form.
Opposition to the Bill, coming from a senior member of the Labour party will have caused consternation amongst Fine Gael backbenchers already ...

Recently the Oireachtas joint committee on health and children sat for three days to discuss the heads of bill for the proposed abortion legislation. The final day focused on the legal aspects of the heads and had witnesses from legal and medical ethics backgrounds giving their expert opinions.

The Master of Dublin's busiest Maternity hospital, Dr Sam Coulter Smith, has said the there are 'major ethical and moral dilemma' arising for Obstetricians from the draft legislation currently proposed by the government. He also warned of a possible 'surge' in the number of abortions if the ...

This morning, 9 May 2013, the RTÉ news programme, Morning Ireland, was forced to admit the truth about their earlier claim that Dr David Fergusson was 'unhappy' with how pro-life groups were presenting his research.
Anyone listening to both interviews yesterday would have been ...

Precious Life organised a special meeting in Parliament Buildings in Belfast for Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly to hear the testimony of Pam Stenzel. Pam Stenzel is founder of ENLIGHTEN COMMUNICATIONS in Minnesota; and a member of “Save the 1” - a new group in the USA aimed ...

An Irish 'abortion rights' lawyer is under fire in Britain for calling for the age of consent to be lowered to 13 in the wake of the Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall scandals.
The BBC reports that Barbara Hewson told online magazine Spiked that the move was necessary in the wake of the Jimmy ...

The woman at the centre of the C case is to take a case against the State. The Irish Independent reports that:
"Today, Mary is a 29-year-old mother of two, but 16 years ago she was the teenage Traveller at the centre of the controversial C Case who was taken to the UK for an abortion by health ...

11 top consultants have written to the papers to challenge Dr Peter Boylan's comments after the inquest into the death of Savita Halappanavar.
They wrote: Sir, – The recent inquest on Savita Halappanavar has raised important issues about hospital infection in obstetrics. Much of ...

113 psychiatrists have signed a statement saying that legislation, which would allow for abortion as a treatment for threat of suicide, has no basis in medical evidence.
Four leading psychiatrists who carried out the survey of around 300 psychiatrists in the country. They are Dr Martin ...

RTÉ's late debate on Tuesday 23 April hosted a panel discussion with Dr. Sean O'Domhnaill of the Life Institute who was joined by Cora Sherlock of the PLC, Senator Liam Twomey (FG) and Veronica O'Keane, Psychiatrist.
Dr. O'Domhnaill made several excellent contributions and explained that ...